On Wednesday 17 October 2007 14:59:36 Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hello, > My machine is running Software RAID 5 on /dev/hde1, /dev/hdg1,/dev/hdi1. I > noticed on the log that suddenly we are getting messages such as : > > Oct 14 01:27:16 localhost smartd[4801]: Device: /dev/hde, SMART Prefailure > Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 247 to 246 > Oct 14 01:57:15 localhost smartd[4801]: Device: /dev/hde, SMART Prefailure > Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 246 to 245 > Oct 14 02:27:15 localhost smartd[4801]: Device: /dev/hde, SMART Prefailure > Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 245 to 246 > Oct 14 02:27:15 localhost smartd[4801]: Device: /dev/hde, SMART Usage > Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 253 to 252 > Oct 14 02:57:15 localhost smartd[4801]: Device: /dev/hde, SMART Prefailure > Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 246 to 245 > Oct 14 02:57:15 localhost smartd[4801]: Device: /dev/hde, SMART Usage > Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 252 to 253 > > Similar messages for /dev/hdi and /dev/hdg also, however it seems > that /dev/hde has the most and have been occuring the longest. > > [root at localhost log]# grep SMART messages messages.1 | grep hde | wc > 178 3023 25944 > [root at localhost log]# grep SMART messages messages.1 | grep hdg | wc > 93 1578 13583 > [root at localhost log]# grep SMART messages messages.1 | grep hdi | wc > 95 1612 13865 > > This did not happen a week ago: > [root at pathfinder log]# grep SMART messages.2 > > Checking /proc/mdstat indicates that all the drives are active i.e. RAID is > not running in degraded mode. > > So, is it that suddenly my drives are failing ? > Any comment or suggestion is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > RDB Smart errors are an indication of a pending hard drive failure. If you are getting this type of error on all the drives in the array and they are all the same age then I would replace the drives as soon as possible. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240